Don't let the LTO manufactures hear you say that. With different driver support, media, ISV certification requirements and specifications that are anything but similar to DLT, the only common item these formats share is that they are 'linear' tape formats.
NetApp will be supporting LTO in the late summer/early fall timeframe.
Regards, Doug Stringer
-----Original Message----- From: ryanb [mailto:ryanb@enteract.com] Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 12:58 PM To: Moshe Linzer Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: LTO support?
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 09:17:57PM +0200, Moshe Linzer wrote:
Does anyone know when LTO will be supported on the filer? I have two 760's, and we are shopping around for a backup library. I am hesitant to go with LTO at this point, but management likes the numbers. Can anyone share experience or opinions on LTO drives or libraries?
Most LTO equipment is identical to DLT equipment, only with a different tape drive. In this respect, the LTO drives will perform identically, or so I'd like to think. ;) Please let me know if I'm wrong here.
- ryan
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 02:26:32PM -0800, Stringer, Douglas wrote:
Don't let the LTO manufactures hear you say that. With different driver support, media, ISV certification requirements and specifications that are anything but similar to DLT, the only common item these formats share is that they are 'linear' tape formats.
NetApp will be supporting LTO in the late summer/early fall timeframe.
Thanks for the brief smackdown. ;)
It just seems that everything I've read had identical product info between the DLT and LTO equipment with exception of the drive itself. It appeared as though the differences were transparent, all diffs internal. (ie: LTO and DLT devices performed identically under FreeBSD's ch driver)
I'm now assuming I'm 100% wrong here. <sob>
- ryan
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